Letters /
BY: Robert Shepherd, MD
January/February 2024
... and pigs have complex cognitive and emotional lives.[ 1 ] I agree.[ 2 ] There are also environmental and health ... plant-derived food. It takes 4 kg of grain to produce 1 kg of pork,[ 3 ] and 7 kg of grain to produce 1 kg of beef.[ 4 ] Carbon dioxide is produced by burning oil ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
March 2024
... where there were 263 surgeons: 184 male and 79 female.[ 1 ] BC lags behind the rest of Canada in terms of the number ... 1970s, the number exceeded the Canadian average [ Figure 1 ].[ 1 ] A study conducted in 2012 showed that 158 general ...
Letters /
BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC
March 2024
... have been the hottest ever recorded and October 2023 being 1.3 °C hotter than any October on record,[ 1 ] everyone should not just question the value of an ...
Letters /
BY: Judy Dercksen, MD
March 2024
... chronic pain affects quality of life and causes anxiety.[ 1 ] Affected individuals are more frequently prescribed ... in the brain explains associated anxiety with pain.[ 1 ] Framing the conversation around chronic pain causing ...
Letters /
BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP
March 2024
... 2023 BC Coroners Service Death Review Panel report[ 1 ] in his editorial [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as ... 2019. The final result—a range of 125 000–225 000[ 1 ]—is of clearly limited statistical value, and yet the ...
Letters /
BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC
March 2024
... all-cause mortality among people receiving safer supply.[ 1 ] The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in ... BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency (1)” and “Re: BC has the tools to address the drug ...
News
March 2024
... and other allergens. Patients took these doses daily for 1–2 years. While most patients had mild symptoms during the ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
March 2024
... Leger, a polling company, published a national survey[ 1 ] in which 63% of respondents were living in British ...
Editorials /
BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB
March 2024
... frustration, and regret and makes depression less likely.[ 1 ] One study of Vietnam War veterans found that those with ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC
March 2024
... burned out, 30% meet the criteria for depression, and 1 out of 14 report suicidal ideation, with the highest ratios ...